David was alternately crying and going back to sleep.

Keller quickly sensed the musical vibrations, swaying in time, alternately crying and smiling.

Sitting at the same table, Jo Davidson alternately cried "Bravo!"

For a while, Ms. Lewinsky sat alternately crying and brooding.

Three girls sat on a curb in the parking lot, alternately crying and making obscene gestures at photographers clustered 50 feet away.

Karl was particularly agitated, alternately crying and bustling about to make certain everything was just so.

Alternately crying, then finding something to laugh about, then crying again, Ms. Mimura took out her camera.

Buddhist narratives recount one story in which Atiśa comes across a woman alternately crying and laughing.

Afterward, Ashford, the 1984 Olympic champion, alternately cried and laughed.

The Iraqi doctors were enchanted by this blonde warrior, who as she recovered spent her time alternately crying and joking.